| 单词 | telly pole |
| 释义 | > as lemmastelly pole = telegraph n. Now usually attributive, esp. in telly pole.In quot. 1796: a type of optical telegraph invented by Sir Richard Lovell Edgeworth in 1767 (cf. telegraph n. 1a).In telly pole, sometimes meaning or confused with telephone. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > telegraph > [noun] telly1796 telegraph1797 telelectrograph1857 thought-conductor1889 magneto-telegraph1890 set?1891 1796 M. Edgeworth Let. in Mem. M. Edgeworth (1867) I. 75 He was afraid that the motion of the stage would have been too violent to agree with his model telegraph—‘his pretty, delicate little telly’, as Lovell calls it. 1876 Argosy Dec. 464 It's agen the rules to leave my box, I know, and I wouldn't leave it for anybody but you..if I didn't know that you knew how to work the levers and the telly a'most as well as I do myself. 1947 A. de Sélincourt Dorset 12 I stopped a countryman in a cart and asked him the way. ‘Follow the telly-poles, master,’ he said, ‘they'll take 'ee to Tollur-r-d.’ 1976 Philadelphia Mag. Mar. 126 Tellypole is the correct word..(for the big wooden poles with wires on them). What is it—a telegraph pole, a telephone pole, an electric pole? 2001 J. E. Wideman Hoop Roots (2003) 63 You and your little crew throwing..a..ball..into some jerry-rigged peach basket nailed to a board on a telly pole. telly pole In telly pole, sometimes meaning or confused with telephone.extracted from tellyn.1< as lemmas |
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